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The purpose of the program is to upgrade existing owner-occupied housing by providing assistance to low and moderate-income senior citizen households to complete rehabilitation on properties with housing quality standard or code violations.
Programs that offer skilled nursing care under the guidance and supervision of a physician in the homes of recently discharged hospital patients and other people who need continuous nursing care but are not in an acute phase of their illness.
Day care centers that provide health and related services as well as care and supervision for adults who require physical rehabilitation, dementia management or other condition-specific forms of assistance on a limited but regular basis and who would be at risk of entering a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility without the support of this type of center. Ancillary services usually include meals and limited social activities.
The Nassau County Shelter Case Management Program is designed to assist individuals with psychiatric disabilities in emergency housing access permanent, supportive housing. Program staff will assist clients in emergency housing with submitting applications for permanent housing, gathering required documentation and making appropriate referrals.
Programs that offer the services of domestic workers who go into people's homes and help with heavy house cleaning chores.
A home health aide (HHA) is a trained health care specialist who provides assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, and ambulation, among other tasks. For anyone who is looking for temporary services (returning from a hospital or rehab stay, for example) or seeking long-term support, home health aide services can be essential in enabling one to remain at home and provide peace of mind.
Organizations that are involved in the business of preparing, storing, compounding and dispensing drugs in accordance with prescriptions prepared by licensed physicians. Pharmacies also counsel patients on proper use of their medication and verify that new treatments are compatible with other medicines they may be taking.
Programs that offer the services of paraprofessional aides who provide personal health care services which do not require special technical training, in the homes of recently discharged hospital patients, elderly individuals and people with disabilities. Services are provided in accordance with a written home health care plan and may include feeding, bathing and grooming patients; changing their beds; taking their temperature, pulse or respiration; helping them to the toilet or to use a bedpan; and other types of assistance that enhance their physical and emotional comfort. The home health aide may also perform other activities as taught by a health professional for a specific patient including changing a colostomy bag; assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living; assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises; assisting with prescribed ice cap or collar; doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumin; measuring and preparing special diets; measuring fluid intake and output; and supervising the self-administration of medications (reminding the individual to take the medication, opening bottle caps, reading the medication label to the individual, observing the individual taking medications, checking the self-administered dosage against the label of the container and reassuring the individual that they have obtained and are taking the correct dosage).
Family Services programs supply aid to people to meet basic needs and also help to build life skills and provide emergency services in times of financial crisis.